Merge main into releases/v2

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Merging 4254f3a into releases/v2.

Conductor for this PR is @henrymercer.

Contains the following pull requests:

• Update ignored version number in GHES versions automation #1881 (@henrymercer)
• Add support for aliasing languages like C/C++, Java/Kotlin, and JS/TS #1883 (@henrymercer)
• Add a deprecation warning for CodeQL 2.10.4 and earlier #1884 (@henrymercer)
• Mergeback v2.21.7 refs/heads/releases/v2 into main #1886 (@cklin)
• Add GitHub token to update dependencies workflow #1887 (@henrymercer)
• Respect RAM constraints imposed by Linux cgroups #1888 (@henrymercer)

Please do the following:

• Ensure the CHANGELOG displays the correct version and date.
• Ensure the CHANGELOG includes all relevant, user-facing changes since the last release.
• Check that there are not any unexpected commits being merged into the releases/v2 branch.
• Ensure the docs team is aware of any documentation changes that need to be released.
• Approve and merge this PR. Make sure Create a merge commit is selected rather than Squash and merge or Rebase and merge.
• Merge the mergeback PR that will automatically be created once this PR is merged.